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Australia needed only two hours this morning to wrap up the fifth test in Sydney.

Of the three players retiring Glenn McGrath took centre stage as he took 3-38.

He started the rot when he removed Kevin Pietersen(29) third ball of the day to all but end Englands hopes of saving the test match. A few overs later Chrs Read called Monty Panesar thorugh for a suicidal single and Andrew Symonds threw down the stumps to run out Panesar(0) before Read(4) himself played at a wide delivery from Brett Lee to leave England in big trouble.

McGrath then got Sajid Mahmood(4) with one that kept low before Steve Harmison and James Anderson added 24 for the last wicket before Anderson was undone by a McGrath slower ball.

Langer(20no) and Matthew Hayden(23no) then set about chasing down the 46 needed for victory, with Hayden hitting the winning runs off Sajid Mahmood off 10.5 overs.